Warrants issued for Utility Stores officials in Karachi

The warrants were issued after NAB filed a reference against deputy MD Masood Alam Niazi

KARACHI: An accountability court issued on Monday arrest warrants for the deputy managing director (MD) and an accounts clerk of Utility Stores Corporation (USC) of Pakistan in a graft case.

The warrants were issued after the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) filed a reference against deputy MD Masood Alam Niazi and accounts clerk Ziaullah Khan Warsi of USC for their alleged involvement in corruption involving over Rs19 million.



According to NAB, Niazi misused his authority and illegally transferred Rs19,236,702 to a private bank account held by Warsi. The transaction was covered in the name of labour charges for transportation of sugar from a godown in Pipri. It was later found that the charges for the said service were already paid to a handling agent. The accountability courts’ administrative judge asked the investigators to arrest the suspects and present them in a week’s time.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 23^rd, 2016.